The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) is a four-day
conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress
offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics
including (but not limited to) information technology,
IT-security, internet, cryptography and generally a
critical-creative attitude towards technology and the
discussion about the effects of technological advances on
society.

If you want to help out at the booth, please contact Dennis
Wecker (dennis at eperm dot net).

21c3, final day
First, I managed to put up the material for my two talks,
``GPL für Anfänger'' (slides,
paper) and
``Easy Software Installation on Linux, Solaris, NetBSD etc. using pkgsrc''
(slides,
paper). The papers
are also published in the conference proceedings (25MB PDF). I've also prepared
slides for a NetBSD lightning talk
which Stefan Schumacher held for me as my throat's still bad.
The third day of the congress didn't have many thrills, we closed
the booth at like 8pm and after some fine cow meat we went to
C-Base for hanging out.

I'd like to thank, in no particular order, the following people
for helping out at the booth:
Stefan Schumacher,
Bernd Sieker,
Karl-Uwe Lockhoff,
Dennis Wecker,
Lubomir Sedlacik,
Christoph Badura,
DaNiel Ettle
and everyone I've forgotten!

21C3, day 2
I've talked to a guy from the Dresden BSD crew today, and they
seem to have a lot of interesting docs for their work up in
their wiki, among it docs on how to install NetBSD on a Strato root server,
for those people that are customers of the Strato ISP. I've helped people
install NetBSD on sparc64 and HP Journada, and answered far too many
questions - my throat's still very bad. I'll close the NetBSD booth now
and head to the Hacker Jeopardy, to see people win NetBSD CDs and
t-shirts. :)

Greetings from the 21st Chaos Communications Congress (21C3) in Berlin, Germany
If you're reading this from somewhere outside the congress, you're
missing a great lot of fun. We've a booth with lots of space in the
hackcenter of the congress, and besides the usual bunch of
t-shirts and
CDs
there's a lot of fun with a merry buch of NetBSD-oriented people.
Our (NetBSD) booth is a joint project with Postgres, and we're
located between the OpenBSD and MirBSD booths, bringing endless
fun and ways for cross-fertilization. I gave two tasks today,
one telling people that "free" software is not public domain
("GPL für Anfänger" - GPL for beginners, and what alternatives
are there :) and introducing pkgsrc. After that my throat's completely
disfunctional, and I've decided to stop advertizing NetBSD for today. :)
(I can't reach the laptop with my slides of the above presentations
right now, so I'll place links to that tomorrow. People missing them
should have come here :)

21C3 is coming, and we'll be there!
Register now for the
21st Chaos Communications Congress,
and help us man the NetBSD booth and tell the hacker community about
our fine operating system! The event's held between xmas and new year
in Berlin, Germany. Check the web page for exact dates (I keep on
forgetting). CU there!